Archive for 'GNU Privacy Guard'

I was debugging a gpg issue earlier this week, and needed to dump the contents of a public key in some type of human readable form. After a bit of googling I came across the crazy awesome pgpdump utility, which provides a command line interface to display the contents of a GPG public key. To […]

One of my friends recently asked me how to verify a signature that is distributed with an opensource application. Since I didn’t have a machine handy to show him, I thought I would jot this down for him in my blog. The first step in verifying a signature requires locating the public key of the […]

The GNU privacy guard provides a command line tool (gpg) to encrypt data and manage digital signatures. GPG supports the OpenPGP standard, and provides easy access to a variety of key distribution servers. To view the full list of options available to gpg, you can run gpg with the “-h” option: $ gpg -h | […]